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2018, Number 34 Published September 2022 ©2022 by The Wedgwood Society of New York, ISSN 1043-3317 President's Letter Neale, Wedgwood, and Sir William Hamilton: Translations of an Image by Nancy H. Ramage The Inkpot That Isn’t 13 by David M. Pendergast The Porcelain Oeuvre of Ivory Carver Johann Christoph Ludwig Lücke by Vanessa Sigalas The Keys to the Collection 40 The Caneware Mystery: A Story Based on Actual Events, Part One by David M. Pendergast The Founders of Caughley, Part 1: The Browne family of Caughley by Allan Smith The Founders of Caughley, Part 2: Gallimore comes to Caughley by Allan Smith The Founders of Caughley, Part 3: Thomas Turner of Caughley by Allan Smith A Wedgwood Classical Revival Teapot by David M. Pendergast

On the cover: Meissen model of a cannon, c. 1741, originally modeled 1728-29 by Johann Christoff Ludwig Lücke, no marks, 3⅜" h x 6¾" l x 5" w (8.59 cm x 17.15 cm x 12.70 cm). The cannon, with barrel in hard-paste porcelain and carriage and wheels in wood and brass, is one of a pair donated to the Wadsworth Atheneum by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917. The coat of arms on the barrel is that of the Brühl – Kolowrat – Krakowsky alliance, suggesting that although developed previously, the cannon may have been later integrated into Count von Brühl’s Swan Service of 1738-39. Johann Christoff Ludwig Lücke (1703-1780) was an engaging and sometimes provocative peripatetic artist working in ivory and various other media; in ceramics, he worked with terracotta, faience and porcelain, and was employed at the Meissen, Vienna and Höchst porcelain factories. Vanessa Sigalas assesses his work in porcelain in an article commencing on page 14. Photograph by courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.